early game

[Salmon Dave]

I am not all that new to Civ III, but I can't get it in gear......
Was great at Civ II........
Question....I am playing the Babylonians......on the
second to the easiest level....
and I come in early contact with a Zulu scout....
maybe after 8 turns.....
I go to see their techs and the darn AI has 4 techs
how can the AI gettem so fast ??

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Scouts move faster, enabling them to cover more territory. These scouts found goody huts and got a free tech from them.

 

[RagingBarbarian]

I think thats the case as well. On warlord its almost impossible for the AI to be so far ahead of you ,unless you completely stop all your science.

 

[KaNick]

Don't worry, you will catch up easily on Warlord. Oh and for future post could you mabye use a lilttle grammar. I got a headache reading that post.

 

[The_Unforgiven]

Originally posted by RagingBarbarian
On warlord its almost impossible for the AI to be so far ahead of you

especially after 8 turns or so

 

[ainwood]

The Zulu's have the expansionist trait, which means two things: 1.) They can build scouts, which have a movement factor of two; and 2.) When they pop a goody hut, they NEVER get barbarians. Therefore, they tend to get more techs.

Also: as Babylon, you start with Bronze Working and Ceremonial burial. The Zulus start with Pottery & Warrior code - that's probably two of the four! So technically, he's probably only two ahead of you.

 

[yoshi74]

From civ 2 your probably to used to dominate the ai from the beginning and be able to build a significant tech lead. Its hard to learn - i knwo that - that in civ 3 you have to catch up and a small tech lead is really great.
Before i learned this, when lagging behind at the start of the game there was always the little demon on my shoulder saying: 'give up, your always behind, how can you win without a techlead?'
Say 'SHUT UP' to this little demon and play and try to catch up and go into lead. And when you done this, you made a great leap towards the higher difficults. Just keep up and never give a game up before its really lost!

 

[The_Unforgiven]

Originally posted by yoshi74
Just keep up and never give a game up before its really lost!

until leviathans (CTP) are crushing your spearman defenders. Then you know that you've prolly lost...